Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week

Gamble with your friends characters looking shocked with slot machine spewing money in background. — (Image credit: Tenstack, Team GWYF)

Videogames are a great way to do stuff with your friends. In Golf With Your Friends, you could golf with your friends without going through the trouble of actually golfing with your friends.

Now, you can gamble with your friends (without having to actually gamble with your friends) thanks to one game: Gamble With Your Friends. Are you still with me? Anyway, gambling always pays, so it tracks that the game sold a million copies in a week.

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It's all about frantic co-op buffoonery and proximity voice chat, and features delightfully goofy player avatars, so I'm comfortable categorizing this is as part of the "friendslop" trend established by games like Peak, Lethal Company, and REPO. These games took 2025 by storm and they're showing no signs of slowing down.

It's hard to say how long they will dominate the sales charts or what's caused their sudden surge in popularity, but it probably helps that these games run on archaic hardware and tend to come cheap. Gamble With Your Friends, for example, is just eight dollars—and as Peak creator Nick Kaman established earlier this year in a mind-blowing demonstration of economic insight, eight bucks is basically five bucks.

Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling the virtues of Shenmue or troubleshooting some fiddly old MMO, it's hard to get his mind off games with more ambition than scruples. When he's not at his keyboard, he's probably birdwatching or daydreaming about a glorious comeback for real-time with pause combat. Any day now...